Officers and Other Shooters from District III in Amsterdam Led by Captain Allaert Cloeck and Lieutenant Lucas Jacobsz Rotgans

~The visual arts are as important as any other original source for social and cultural historians. Portraiture is a good case in point. A portrait is a primary document about a sitter’s behaviour and environment. It reveals not only the exterior of a person and his or her character, but also something substantial about a patron’s social position,...

ALOIS RIEGL began his career as an art historian by working in the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. His early papers included work on oriental carpets and early mediaeval manuscripts. His concern with pattern and applied art took on wider resonances by virtue of two other elements in his education. He was taught philosophical psychology by the Herbartian Robert Zimmermann and history by Max Büdiger, who envisaged a general system of world history. The Herbartian element was the more important …